[NU Sports] NU Sports News Digest 8/22

[Roy S. Lamberton]

I'm taking a Pollyanna attitude about the defense - I'm not sure how much of
drop off we suffered with Howard out.

There are many suggestions hinted at that Loren wasn't really playing well, and
hadn't really practiced since the previous season. There was a psychological
benefit to having him in there, but he was apparently being easily handled by
Thiry, not a good sign for Howard.

Anyway, there's a poll I saw and linked that has us 11th in the Big 10 - with
Indy and Ill-noise ranked above us, altho the write up implies that we'll be
just another bottom feeder this year.

Tell it to the Cats.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Vance [mailto:michael.vance at att.net] 
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:54 PM
> To: Roy S. Lamberton
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU Sports News Digest 8/22
> 
> 
> At 8/22/2005 01:35 PM, you wrote:
> >Big 10
> >      Listing everyone in the US - we're 49th
> >      2005 Unit Rankings: Defense
> >       
> >http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/4335696?CMP=OTC-K9B1408131
62&ATT=24

This puts us 6th in the conference, which surprises me.  Of course, these 
rankings were probably created before the losses of Howard and Heinz.  The 
Big Ten is 4th in conference rankings with teams ranging from Penn State 
(#2) down to Indiana (#90).

Their offensive rankings (http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/4032284) have 
us at #46 which is only good for 8th in the conference.  The conference is 
rated #1 offensively, with Michigan at #5 and PSU down at #82.  I'm not 
quite sure how the SEC dropped all the way to #3 in the conference rankings 
with four of the top ten teams.  So, like any preseason prognostications, 
take these with a grain of salt.

-Michael